Yes, that was a small reference to The Sopranos. Couldn't help ourselves!

Anyway, Edie Falco's new show, Nurse Jackie, opened to great reviews and even better numbers on Showtime Monday night. With the season premiere of Weeds to lead in viewers, the show attracted 1 million viewers for it's first showing and another 350,000 for the repeat following.

The numbers make it Showtime's most watched series premiere ever!

Score!

With such a great response to back it, the network went right ahead and ordered another 13 episode season of the show.

Loved it! Everyone go watch the premier episode for free online at showtime. Great writing, intriguing characters, it appears to have some real legs to stand on. It definitely left me wanting more! Great job Edie and crew.

the promotion shot of her holding the needle, was just absolutely grabbing. her eyes said it all, she is sassy, a bit overworked, slightly sad, vulnerable, and tough all at the same time. letting all that be captured in one shot shows what an amazing actress she is. i bet this show's great!

Re: applegreenalicious – I love how she is holding the syringe in that promo shot…so it looks like she's flipping a bird.
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Usually premiere episodes can be a tad boring, trying to set up the storyline and introduce the main characters, but I thought the first Nurse Jackie episode was very intriguing and well done. Edie Falco's nurse Jackie is an interesting and complex character. Loved it.

It was FANTASTIC. Excellent writing, brilliant acting. I'm so excited! Edie was amazing, as always and Peter Facinelli was great! Showtime rocks - Weeds, Nurse Jackie, Californication, - they have all the great shows.

I haven't watched it, but one of the actor's from Twilight is on it. I'm sure tons of them watched it, and that's why the views were so high!! There's no way a summer show like this would get that many views otherwise.

Re: xoxogossipgirll – So, your observation that "Nurse Jackie" had very high viewer numbers as the result of a Twilight cast member on the show? Honey, you're reasoning abilities are ridiculous, to say the least…Nurse Jackie was watched, loved AND well recieved primarily due to Edie Falco's amazing talent and portrayal of the title character and terrific writing. In addition, the marketing of this show was brilliant. Think before you comment next time, or you are just going to continue to embarrass yourself.

This show so far is great! I have seen two episodes because Showtime ONdemand here had an early viewing of the show and has put the second one ondemand as well..The second episode is even better then the first. I will def. continue to watch.

Re: nycbaby – I've had so many of my patients and coworkers at work saying that they want to watch the show because "the guy from twilight is in it!". These girls have NO idea who Edie Falco is. I've had to tell them that she's been in many great shows. OZ included. Maybe YOU should think before YOU comment next time.

She looks drastically different here then from that promo, which, while understandable for a promotion shot … how are they doing her face up on the actual show? Leather face and outdated veneers makes for a tired actress.

I watched it for Peter too. Edie was great no denying that, the show was good, but you can't say Twilight fan didn't have ANY thing to do with it, alot of promoting went on for the show on Twilight fan sites. Everyone I know that watched it is a Twilight fan. So what?